Salesforce Executive Saima Shaukat Joins TechCanary as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

By STS News Desk On Jun 6, 2018

Saima Shaukat, a Veteran of Salesforce with 18 years of Enterprise Software experience, an ideal fit for TechCanary’s target market and rapid growth

TechCanary, a provider of a cloud-based, analytics-driven insurance solution and the #1 insurance solution built natively on the Salesforce platform, announced that Saima Shaukat has joined the company as chief revenue officer (CRO). Saima Shaukat’s combined Salesforce and financial services industry experience is an ideal fit to help drive TechCanary’s continued growth.

“In my role at Salesforce I had the opportunity to work with TechCanary and its platform and was impressed with both. I’m thrilled to be part of the team to help change how agencies and carriers manage their operations and interactions with customers”

In her new position, Shaukat is leading the development of the TechCanary go-to-market strategy, which includes establishing and expanding new markets for TechCanary’s insurance platform. Prior to joining TechCanary, Shaukat served as GM and vice president Commercial Sales for Salesforce in the Canadian financial services market where she created the financial services team in Canada and grew revenue 300% over her tenure.

Reid Holzworth

Commenting on the addition of Saima Shaukat, Reid Holzworth, CEO and co-founder said, “Saima is a tremendous addition to our executive team and will help drive the next level of growth and expansion. Her proven leadership and sales strategy skills combined with her knowledge of financial services and Salesforce is the perfect combination.”

Reid added, “Our growth to date has been gratifying and we are putting a strong leadership team in place with high caliber talent like Saima to enable us to accelerate our growth and expand into more insurance markets.”

“In my role at Salesforce, I had the opportunity to work with TechCanary and its platform and was impressed with both. I’m thrilled to be part of the team to help change how agencies and carriers manage their operations and interactions with customers,” commented Ms. Shaukat. “Some believe that the insurance industry is slow to embrace new technologies, but it is ripe for disruption and the rapid growth and adoption of the TechCanary platform is proof that there is an appetite for change. TechCanary has knowledge of the Industry, good technology, and a talented workforce which is a recipe for success.”

Prior to her 13 years with Salesforce in various roles, Saima Shaukat served as business development manager with Infotriever. Earlier in her career, she was a federal account executive with Silanis Technology. In addition to her professional career, Shaukat earned a BA with Honors from McGill University in Economics and Computer Science.